Is the space open right now? - No

Umeå Hackerspace is closed.

Normal opening hours are:

Remember to check the open status indicator here on the website before dropping by, since it's not guaranteed that anyone has arrived yet. Or just ask on IRC/XMPP.

We are also listed on spaceapi, which has phone apps available. Just search for "spaceapi" wherever you get your apps, install any one you like, then search for "Umeå Hackerspace".


Articles in the Blog category

Open status now logged

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By tms

The state of the space is now logged every time the open sign switch is flipped or whenever someone rings the doorbell. This state is published at https://umeahackerspace.se/opensignd_log.json. The format is a list of the spaceapi "state" field over time, like so:

{
 "states": [
  {
   "lastchange": 1662406258.92183 …

Cryptoparty w/ ACC

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By tms

Today we held a cryptoparty together with Academic Computer Club (ACC) at Origo. The event was attented by around 30 safety curious persons. Presentations were held, food was eaten and beer drunk.

Topics included threat modelling, encrypted chat, encrypted email, disk encryption, Tor, Spectre, Row hammer, etc.

One thing we …

Vanliga öppettider igen

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English version further down.

Nu när pandemin börjar lugna ner sig så har vi återgått till normala öppettider. Alla medlemmar och presumtiva medlemmar är välkomna! Även öppetstatusen på hemsidan och på IRC fungerar igen. Öppetskylten däremot måste fortfarande lagas.

English

Now that the pandemic is winding down we are returning …

RIP asbest

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By tms

Regular visitors may have noticed that this website has been down for a few days, as well as IRC still being down. This is because the server that has been running most of our services, asbest, died a few days ago after 18 years of operation. In honour of this …

The blog lives again!

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By tms

After three years of no one really caring about it, the blog is now alive again! Members can now edit it by cloning the www.git repository on asbest, editing then pushing the result back. Hooray!

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